Juin 2017

Letter @ otoliths (en)

Demosthenes Agrafiotis’s poem « Letter » has been published in Otoliths, a magazine of many e-things.

Translated from the Greek by Angelos Sakkis.

Delphi, 03/21/2001, Lisbon, 06/21-25/2001, Rome, 06/26/2001

Letter

what letter
leads to the white
what letter
denies the color
what letter
poses the problem
what letter
exercises moderation
what letter
traverses poetry
what letter
betrays the language
what letter
fits the prophesy
what letter
locks-up the place of divination
what letter
facilitates the dissolution
what letter
implies power
what letter
entrenches the occasion
what letter
drives the correlations
what letter
collapses before the question
what letter
shuts the mouth
what letter
heals through writing
what letter
provokes the invisible
what letter
assists gods and semi-gods
what letter
still insists for reciprocity
what letter
goes “poof” and “gaah”
what letter
recognizes the nightingales of Delphi
what letter
misses the landscapes and the sunshine
what letter
stays afloat with nothing
what letter
declares internationalism a farce
what letter
does the hand-sign
what letter
imposes a noon siesta
what letter
makes flatlands unbearable
what letter
is responsible for the failure of the poem
what letter
is suitable for sucking up to authority
what letter
leads to grooming the mustache
what letter
accommodates blinding
what letter
cultivates exception
what letter
specifies difference
what letter
is responsible for rhyming
what letter
goes well with sour faces
what letter
keeps the rhythm
what letter
relieves boundaries from their boundaries
what letter
gives in to cleanliness
what letter
promotes the illusion of sufficiency
what letter
cements a friendship
what letter
is becoming to the absence of sadness
what letter
prevents the promotion of the poet
what letter
brings back calmness to the other sea
what letter
conjugates betrayal
what letter
does not turn into fireworks
what letter
renders poetic justice
what letter
avoids airports
what letter
refuses to become an allusion
what letter
spews out all identifications
what letter
is confused with its usage
what letter
prepares its escape to meaning
what letter
prostitutes its combinations
what letter
gets mixed up with references
what letter
is charged for the value of its use
what letter